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-On the 29th of September, 2006,

police in Glasgow
made an horrific discovery

under the floor
of a local church --

the mutilated body

of 23-year-old student
Angelika Kluk,

who'd been missing
for almost a week.

-She was put under there.

He stabbed her,
and he raped her.

He left her dead.

-The last person seen
with Angelika

was 60-year-old church handyman
Peter Tobin,

a man with a history
of violent sexual abuse.

-He's very reliant
on this superficial charm

that he's developed
and that he rolls out

whenever he identifies a victim,

and this will essentially
lead his victims

to let their guard down.

-The investigation
into Angelika's murder

would uncover
a series of shocking crimes

dating back as far
as the early 1990s.

-Tobin defies
even my imagination.

There is something about him

that sends a shiver
down my spine

every time I think about him.

-Peter Tobin had been unmasked

as one of the world's
most evil killers.

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It was a case
that spanned two decades.

By the time Peter Tobin
was found guilty

of murdering teenage hitchhiker
Dinah McNicol in 2009,

he'd already been in prison
for two years.

He was serving life sentences
for the murders of Angelika Kluk

and 15-year-old schoolgirl
Vicky Hamilton.

The 63-year-old
serial killer and rapist

had buried all three girls
across a 15-year period --

one in Scotland,

and two on the south coast
of England.

-Another awful discovery
at 50 Irvine Drive --

a body bag thought to contain
the remains of Dinah McNicol,

brought out from what was
the most ordinary of houses.

It is no longer.

-I think what sets
Tobin apart for me

is the sheer relentless
brutality of him.

A man who genuinely paid
no attention whatever

to anything but his own
basest instinct.

He did what he wanted
when he wanted,

and could get away with it.

-Former Detective Superintendent
David Swindle

from Strathclyde Police

first came across Tobin
after the body of Angelika Kluk

was discovered
at St. Patrick's Church

in Glasgow in 2006.

The 23-year-old Polish student
had been missing for 5 days.

-Coming back to the church today
brings it all back to me --

the horrors, the horrors of
what must have happened here,

unbelievable.

You could never imagine it --

a place of worship
desecrated by Peter Tobin

doing it to Angelika Kluk.

-But when they arrested Tobin,

police were convinced
this wasn't his first murder.

David set up Operation Anagram,

a task force charged
with finding out more

about the life and crimes
of Peter Tobin.

-When we looked at his life
in Operation Anagram,

we found that he frequented
places like this --

churches,
religious establishment,

homeless persons, hostels.

How many people frequented

the places
that Tobin frequented?

How many people did he meet that
were vulnerable at that time

that had no relatives
to report them missing?

How many of these went missing
and were never reported missing,

that Tobin has killed?

We'll never know.
Tobin knows the answer.

-His story begins
over 70 years ago.

Peter Tobin was born
in Johnstone, Scotland,

13 miles east of Glasgow,

on the 27th of August, 1946.

-He was part of this
postwar-baby-boom generation.

He came from
quite a large family.

He was one of eight children.

His dad worked
for the local council,

and his mother was a housewife.

And by all accounts,
he was a bit of a wild child.

-Some suggested he was violent
towards his siblings

and quickly developed
a habit of minor thefts

and occasional burglary.

-By the age of 7,
he was in reform school,

and that is something that
is quite significant here,

because these places
where these boys went

were quite brutal
in terms of the regime,

in terms of
the treatment by staff.

Lots of children misbehaved,

lots of children
went off the rails,

but I think you had to be
quite extreme

to find yourself
in a reform school.

-As Tobin grew up,
this childish rebellion

developed into an entirely
reckless disregard for the law.

-Now, as a young man,
Peter Tobin moved around a lot.

He did a lot of low-skill jobs
and moved from place to place,

and he would often get involved
in property crime.

He was convicted of
burglary and fraud.

So here is somebody who breaks
the law time and time again,

and he's seemingly okay with it,
so he's crossed that boundary.

He crossed that boundary
a long time ago,

and I think,
for most of his life,

he's constantly pushing that
further and further.

-At the age of 22,
Tobin began a relationship

with 17-year-old
Margaret Mountney.

The pair were married
in August 1969,

by which time they had relocated
from Glasgow to Brighton.

-It all seemed
to start rather well.

He was incredibly charming.
He was incredibly attentive.

But it soon degenerated into
something altogether different.

He would regularly beat her up
and lock her in the house.

He was cruel towards her pets.

He actually decapitated
her pet puppy.

-A number of the women who have
had relationships with Tobin

say that he can be very charming
for quite a long period

until you'll find
that he becomes very violent.

The women who've known him
often talk about this ability

to turn on a sixpence --
to suddenly become horrific

when, in fact, moments earlier,

he was being perfectly nice
or charming.

It is part of
Tobin's characteristic.

He is an evil man
hiding in plain sight.

-He knows what
women want to hear,

so he will use that charm
offensive in the early days,

but his true colors
will soon shine through,

and by then, unfortunately,
it's too late.

He's really chipped away
at these women's confidence

and their self-esteem,

and they're very much
under his control.

-The troubled relationship
didn't last.

After Tobin was sent to prison
for three years for burglary,

the couple divorced in 1971.

After serving his sentence,
Tobin wed again in 1973,

but this marriage
was equally as violent,

and by 1976, it was over.

-Peter met his third wife,
Cathy Wilson, in 1986,

and there was
quite an age difference.

She was 16 at the time,
and he was around 40,

so she was very young,

she was very vulnerable,
she was very impressionable,

and he turned on
the charm again,

and she moved in with him
very quickly,

and they had a child together.

-The couple were married
in Brighton in 1989,

and Tobin moved his young bride
and their son far away

from her family to Bathgate
in West Lothian in 1990.

-Now, this relationship went
pretty much the same way

as his other marriages had gone.

He was incredibly controlling.
He was incredibly abusive.

He didn't like
her leaving the home.

He would make sure
that she didn't go out

and didn't talk to anybody,
and she eventually fled.

She eventually
summoned up the courage

to leave this relationship,

and she only did that through
secretly saving up bus fare

for a very long time

in order to travel to England
with her son.

-Despite
their relationship ending,

45-year-old Tobin moved back
to the south of England in 1991

to be close to his young son.

He settled on Irvine Drive
in Margate, Kent.

His next-door neighbor
at the time was Dave Martin.

-Well, the picture he painted
for the community

was a nice, steady bloke --
no loud parties, no loud music.

He was not an annoyance
in any way.

If you were stuck
or you had a problem,

you only had to ask him,
and he'd give you a hand.

He'd help out.

-But Dave soon saw
a sinister side

to his friendly neighbor.

-We'd be outside and a couple
young girls would walk past,

and he'd say,
"Cool. What about them?"

And I would say,
"Don't be stupid, Pete.

You're old enough
to be their father."

"Oh, yeah, yeah,"
and he'd laugh it off.

-After two years in Margate,

out of the blue,
Tobin moved on again.

-All of a sudden,
the house next door was empty,

no ifs, no buts.

I shrugged my shoulders
at the time.

I thought,
"Well, he's moved on."

He was a little bit
on the weird side, anyway,

so I didn't give that
a lot of thought neither.

-By 1993, Tobin was living
in a flat at Havant

on the south coast of England.

His violent nature was about
to turn even more sinister.

On the 4th of August, 1993,

Tobin was at home
with his 5-year-old son

when two 14-year-old girls came
to visit one of his neighbors.

-They knocked on next door, and
discovered there was no one in.

Tobin saw an opportunity,

invited the two girls to wait
in his flat with his son.

After all, what could be
less threatening?

-As his 5-year-old son slept,

Tobin drugged both girls using
a chemical called amitriptyline,

and sexually assaulted them
before leaving them for dead.

-He'd subjected them to
quite a violent sexual assault,

and it was only when his son
interrupted this assault

that it finished, essentially,

and Peter called his ex-wife

claiming that he was having
a heart attack,

and this was about 2:00
in the morning.

-He turned the gas on
in the flat

and then proceeded to leave
with his son,

presumably hoping that
they would die of asphyxiation

from the gas.

-But the girls
regained consciousness

and managed to escape
before calling the police.

Journalist Martin Brunt
remembers hearing about

the sickening attack.

-Two schoolgirls, 14 years old,

had been held prisoner
in a flat,

had been plied with drink and
drugs, had been raped,

and then left in the flat
with the gas turned on,

and whoever had done it had
effectively left them to die.

Very quickly, police announce

that they were looking
for a man called Peter Tobin.

-40 days after the attack,

and using the alias
"Peter Wilson,"

Tobin was found
and arrested in Brighton.

On May the 16th, 1994,
at Winchester Crown Court,

he pleaded guilty to rape
and indecent assault,

and was sent to jail
for 14 years,

but he served just 10,
and was released in 2004.

-He changed his name

so he wouldn't appear in the
serious-sex-offenders register,

wouldn't set off
any alarm bells anywhere,

and got a job as a church
handyman back in Glasgow.

-When a man
called Pat McLaughlin

came looking for refuge
at St. Patrick's Church,

the priest and charity workers
who took him in

had no idea
they were offering sanctuary

to a man who would commit
an act of absolute evil

right under their very roof.

Members of the local charity
group Loaves & Fishes,

Denis and Cathy Curran
remember the night

McLaughlin came looking
for refuge.

-I met Patrick McLaughlin
in May 2006.

It was a wild night, and he
came in for something to eat.

He said he was homeless
and he had nothing to eat,

and we gave him food.

-This was a really,
really terrible night.

I've never seen that in my life.

We were just ready to go
when he came into the door,

and he came in
and he said he was hungry,

and we said, "Right,"

but Father Gerry had told him
that anybody was frightened

to go into the night
and nowhere to sleep,

they could sleep
inside the church.

-Throughout his life,

Tobin, who was born
and brought up a Catholic,

had a persistent connection
with the Catholic Church,

and, at various points during
his periods on the run

or disappearing
or adopting false identities,

took refuge in Catholic churches
and Catholic communities.

I think it was simply that

that was somewhere
where he felt comfortable,

where he knew
how to conduct himself,

where he could hide
in plain sight.

He could conceal his true nature

behind the facade
of a church handyman

or a member of
a Christian community,

and that was a very safe way

to conceal the reality
of what he wanted.

-To Tobin, nothing was sacred.

He took advantage of
the open nature of the Currans

and the community
of St. Patrick's.

-He was with us
maybe about six, seven weeks,

something like that.

Then he started giving
Father Gerry a hand

in the church,

and he's doing
bits and pieces.

People don't understand,

you can be with somebody
a full day,

and you never spoke.

You know what I mean?

People find that
hard to understand.

There was nothing to --
It was a "yes" and "no."

That's what it was,
a "yes" and a "no."

-Peter Tobin was an incredibly
manipulative individual.

He wasn't particularly
emotionally complex himself,

but he had a really good
understanding

of other people's emotions.

He knew what other people
needed to hear,

and he used that
to get what he wanted.

-Cathy, however, had concern

for the ominous stranger
who joined their community.

-I says to Denis there was
something far wrong with him.

I wasn't too sure what it was,
but as far as I could understand

that the jigsaw
with Pat McLaughlin

was not fitting together.

There was something
not right there.

-But Tobin's next step
was more evil

than any of them
could have predicted.

Angelika Kluk was
a 23-year-old student

from Skoczow,
near Krakow, in Poland

who was working as a cleaner
in St. Patrick's Church.

On the 24th of September 2006,
she disappeared.

Denis broke the news
to his wife.

-He said, "That girl,
Angelika Kluk,

we don't know where she is,"

and I went, "What do you mean?"

He said, "She's vanished.
All her stuff is there.

All her credit cards
and everything

are all up in the room,
but she's vanished."

-Police scour the church
and grounds for evidence

and began interviewing
members of the community.

They discovered that the
last person seen with Angelika

was the church handyman,
a man named Pat McLaughlin.

Charity worker Denis
provided police

with a photograph of McLaughlin.

-At 6:00, it went on
the evening news nationwide,

and within minutes,

the phone line
was jammed to say,

"That's not Pat McLaughlin.
That's Peter Tobin."

-Police now had
their main suspect.

They quickly discovered
that Tobin had a violent past,

and the investigation
escalated at rapid speed.

David Swindle was
the lead detective on the case.

-I became involved
in the investigation

when it was established
that Peter Tobin,

a missing sex offender,
had been with Angelika Kluk.

And soon after my involvement,

I arranged for the church
to be searched again

by specialist officers
and specialist teams.

There's a garage
attached to the church,

and that is where Peter Tobin
was with Angelika Kluk,

working on some woodwork.

He called her
his "little apprentice."

He actually was interviewed
by a police officer

when the missing-person report
was made,

and he stayed there
for another day,

and when the heat was on,
he left.

When he realized
it was being treated

as a major investigation,
he left.

This is someone that was cool
and calculated.

-Police launched a nationwide
search for Peter Tobin.

-Mr. Tobin is considered
a potential risk

to members of the public.

Any person who sees this man
is advised not to approach him.

-It was a name that sounded
all too familiar

to crime journalist
Martin Brunt.

-It was a shock to find
what had happened,

but what made it particularly
interesting for crime reporters

who were covering the case
was that police were appealing

for a man called Peter Tobin,
and it rang bells.

It took me and others back
to the days of 1993.

They didn't realize that he was,
in reality,

Peter Tobin with a dreadful
history of sex crimes.

He was a man hiding in that
community under a false name,

had duped the church authorities
to employ him as a handyman,

and, of course, they were
completely innocent

of his background.

-As the search for Angelika
intensified,

it became more and more likely
she wouldn't be found alive.

-We did another search
of the church,

a really thorough search,

because, by this time,
the parameters had changed.

There was concern
for her safety.

-Five days after
her disappearance,

on the 29th of September, 2006,

police discovered
the body of Angelika Kluk

under the floorboards
of St. Patrick's Church.

She had suffered
severe head injuries

and multiple stab wounds

after being attacked
in the adjoining garage.

-It was in there
just after the priest,

Father Gerry,
left on that Sunday.

Within minutes of it,

someone across the road
had heard a scream.

He hit her over the head
with a table leg --

There were splinters
in her head --

rendered her unconscious
or semiconscious,

bound her hands with cable ties,
further assaulted her,

dragged her in a polythene sheet
into the church here

and across the church

and put her body under the floor
like a bag of rubbish.

She was put under there.

He stabbed her, whether that
happened underneath here

or whether it happened outside,
and he raped her.

He left her dead.

-The British public was shocked

to learn the truth of where
Angelika's body had been hidden

since her violent death.

-This should've been
a day of worship

here at St. Patrick's Church,

but instead, the building
remains a crime scene

sealed off
and guarded by police.

And today brought the news
that the people

who laid those floral tributes
were expecting but dreading --

that the body found hidden
underneath the floorboards here

was indeed that of
the missing Polish student.

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-I think the discovery
of Angelika's body --

It was awful enough

that a young woman had died
in those circumstances.

The fact that she was buried
under a church

added some sense
of horror and drama

to the way people reacted to it.

The fact that a suspect

was somebody who had been
working at the church,

somebody who seemingly
had volunteered

to be a handyman at the church,
didn't really make sense.

-DNA evidence on Angelika's body

was confirmed as belonging
to Peter Tobin,

and his fingerprints
were found on the tarpaulin

he used to wrap her in.

-In forensic pathology,

we have what's called
Locard's exchange principle.

That says that, when you
interact with another person,

you leave something
of yourself on them

and you take something of them
away with you.

Anyone who murders
another person,

who physically interacts
with them,

they will leave trace evidence.

They will leave DNA,
potentially fibers, hairs,

all sorts of things.

-But Peter Tobin continued
to elude the authorities.

Despite a nationwide search,
he disappeared into thin air.

-So, things were moving
very fast.

We have the human remains
of a young woman

who's been ferociously attacked.

Horrible, horrible scene
underneath the floorboards.

Forensic examination is ongoing.

We knew by this time that
Peter Tobin had a history

of violence, sexual crimes.

He had been in prison.
He was a dangerous person.

Where was he?

-David and his team wouldn't
have to wait long for an answer.

In early October, just over
a week since Angelika's murder,

they received
a crucial breakthrough.

Tobin had been spotted,

this time using another alias,
James Kelly,

over 400 miles away.

-We got a phone call
from the police in London

that he had checked into
a hospital in a false name.

Someone had recognized him.

A Metropolitan Police officer
went in there

and confirmed his identity,

and I arranged for
a team of uniform officers

to bring him back to Scotland.

-On the 23rd of March, 2007,

the trial of 60-year-old
Peter Tobin began

at Edinburgh High Court.

He was charged with
the rape and murder

of 23-year-old student
Angelika Kluk.

Tobin pleaded not guilty
and remained brazen throughout.

-We went to court.

He was sitting with his lawyer,
and he gave me a big smile

as if, "How you doing, pal?"
You know?

I just totally ignored that.

-Six weeks later,
on the 4th of May, 2007,

the jury took just four hours
to deliberate,

and Peter Tobin
was found guilty.

Judge Lord Menzies described him
as an "evil man"

before sentencing him
to serve a minimum of 21 years.

He was immediately sent
to Edinburgh Prison.

As he left court, he violently
lashed out at photographers.

But David Swindle and his team
were convinced

there was still more
to the Tobin story.

Throughout the trial, they'd
been building a massive dossier

on Tobin's past.

-Do you get to 60
and you start killing?

That was a question in my mind.

Has this individual
done it before?

So I thought, "We need to look
at this individual's movements,

his background,
look back at his life."

However, this was
a difficult thing,

because if it ever got out that
we're looking at Peter Tobin

as a potential serial killer,

that would've been prejudicial

to the case that we're building
regarding Angelika,

so I set up
a very confidential operation

called Operation Anagram,

and that was working
in a back room,

and we never went overt.

We never went out in the public
regarding that

until he was convicted
of the murder of Angelika Kluk.

-The police faced
an almost impossible task,

tracing backwards from
the culprit to the victims.

-It is very difficult
to analyze cold cases

with really only rumor to go on

if you don't have
a body or bodies,

if you don't know
who the victims were,

if they could've been
missing persons

or they could've been victims.

It's very difficult.

-There was a team of officers
that I sent out

to look at his connections
and where he lived,

and they came in excited,
saying,

"He's got an address
in Bathgate,"

and the address in Bathgate
was at the same time

as a well-known missing person
who'd been so many years ago,

Vicky Hamilton.

-15-year-old Vicky Hamilton
had been last seen

on the 10th of February, 1991,

waiting for a bus home
to Redding near Falkirk.

Her case was considered to be

one of Scotland's biggest
missing-persons inquiries.

-What are the chances
of an individual like that

being in the same area
at the same time

when this really high-profile
missing person had disappeared?

So I contacted
Lothian and Borders Police,

and they started looking
at their case again

and reviewing that case.

-In June 2007, police began
to search Tobin's former home.

-As soon as he was convicted
for the murder of Angelika Kluk,

they went overt,
and they searched the house

at Robertson Avenue in Bathgate,

and they found potential
evidence that could link him.

It was a knife, a dagger.

-But there was no evidence
of a body or human remains.

David Swindle and his team
needed to look further afield

for the answers they wanted.

-Anagram was about where Tobin
was, what happened in an area,

what the victim, the person
that disappeared, looked like.

Was it his type of victim?

Were they vulnerable
in any way at that time?

I called it investigative
analysis of a serial killer.

-Tobin's transient lifestyle
made it very difficult

for the team to work alone
on the operation.

-Tobin had spent his whole life
traveling about,

and we found this out
very quickly,

so we had one connection,
which was Bathgate.

We realized that he spent a lot
of time in Brighton and Margate.

I thought, "We need
to join this up,"

so Anagram became UK-wide

and involved every single
police force in the UK,

and we set up this operation,
which is the best example

of joined-up working
throughout the UK.

-David's team began to uncover
more potential victims.

-We had another missing person
that was a potential link,

and that was Dinah McNicol.

Dinah had been
at the Liphook festival,

and she had been
with her then-boyfriend,

and they were looking
for a lift,

and they got a lift
from an individual,

a Scottish individual.

-But after the mysterious driver

dropped off her boyfriend
in Surrey,

18-year-old Dinah
never made it home to Essex.

She was last seen
in early August 1991.

-I think Peter Tobin is
quite an opportunistic offender

in that he will identify a
victim and then he will pounce.

He's like a predator.

But all of the time
that this is going on,

he's developing his offending.

He's very reliant
on this superficial charm

that he's developed
and that he rolls out

whenever he identifies a victim,

so whether it's a hitchhiker
that he picks up on the road,

whether it's somebody who works
at the same location as he does,

he will deploy this charm,

and this will essentially
lead his victims

to let their guard down.

-Police focused in
on one of Tobin's previous homes

in Margate, 50 Irvine Drive,

where he'd lived in 1991.

His former neighbor Dave Martin

remembers the day
the police knocked on his door.

-The police turned up
in November 2007,

and they asked to speak
about Peter Tobin,

so I told them what little
I knew at the time,

and then they said
something rather strange --

Had he done any gardening?

Well, it made me smile
at the time

because that's the last thing
I've ever seen him do,

gardening.

Then I remembered the sandpit.

-Dave cast his mind back
16 years.

-I noticed that Peter was
digging a hole next door,

so I leant over the fence,
and I said,

"You going for Australia, Pete?"

because the hole did seem
to be a bit deep.

"Oh", he said, "I'm building
a sandpit for my youngster

when he comes up
on the weekends,"

so, anyway,
I thought no more of it,

and he carried on.

A couple of days later,
I looked over again,

and the sandpit
was all filled in,

so next time I saw him, I said,

"What happened
to your sandpit, Pete?"

"Oh," he said, "I wasn't allowed
to put one in,

something to do
with regulations.

It was unsafe for the boy."

So I said, "Well, I haven't
heard of that one,"

but I thought no more of it
at the time.

-It was exactly what the police
had been hoping to hear.

Was it possible that,
for the last 16 years,

the bodies
of both Vicky Hamilton

and Dinah McNicol
had been buried

in the back garden
of 50 Irvine Drive?

On November the 12th, Tim Mills,

the senior investigating officer
on the Dinah McNicol case,

made the decision
to excavate the garden

at Tobin's former home
in Irvine Drive, Margate,

convinced he would
discover her body.

Specialist equipment,

including ground-penetrating
radar, was brought in

as police underwent
their search.

-People tend to think
that these crimes are committed

in very different locations.

This was a very mundane,
matter-of-fact terraced house

on an estate in Margate.

-It took just 24 hours before
the police found human remains.

-I can remember to this day
what I was doing

when I got a telephone call
from Tim Wills

to say they had found
a body in the garden.

I asked him,
"Was it Dinah McNicol?"

And he says, "No.
It's Vicky Hamilton."

-Operation Anagram had uncovered

exactly what they'd hoped
but also dreaded to find.

For Vicky's family,
a 16-year wait had been brought

to a devastating end
in a back garden

over 450 miles from where
she'd last been seen.

-Peter Tobin will have
walked this path.

It leads to what was
his backyard.

There are police search teams
there now,

and several large holes
they've been digging.

The blue tarpaulin covers
the shallow grave

where they found 15-year-old
Vicky Hamilton's body.

-When you learn that they'd made
that kind of progress,

you're filled with, I suppose,
a sense of sadness,

perhaps relief for the families,

and, of course,
it threw out the prospect

of another trial of Peter Tobin.

-Tobin was immediately charged
with Vicky Hamilton's murder,

but the police had yet to finish
their excavation

of his former home.

-We came here to search
for the remains

of Dinah McNicol
or any physical evidence

which might link her
disappearance to that house,

and that's what
we will continue to do.

-And they wouldn't
have to wait long.

On the 16th of November,

a second body was found
in the garden,

which was indeed that of
18-year-old Dinah McNicol.

-The two victims that were found

were essentially
skeletal remains.

That causes a great deal of
difficulty for the pathologists.

Obviously, we have
no skin to look at

for bruises or stab wounds.

We have no organs to look at
for injury or disease.

But if you do have two bodies

clandestinely buried
in the same place,

it's certainly
a very big indicator

that these are not
two natural deaths.

-When they started
to bring the bodies out,

I was sick, because I had
no idea whatsoever

that anything like that
had gone on.

Nobody had a clue that
anything like that had gone on.

It was just unbelievable.

-Tobin's fingerprints were found

on the bin bags
used to wrap Dinah's body,

and postmortem examinations

found traces
of the drug amitriptyline

in both Dinah
and Vicky Hamilton --

the same drug Tobin used
on the two teenage girls

he'd attacked in 1993.

-One of the things
that's always of value

in a forensic-pathological
investigation is toxicology.

Has this person taken drugs,

either deliberately
or by accident?

Have they been sedated
by somebody else?

All of this can give you answers

to things that have happened
with them,

and particularly
if you have something

like a sample of liver
or muscle available,

then if those drugs
are in the system

at the time somebody died,
they will still be identifiable

weeks, months, potentially
even years or later.

-Tobin first stood trial
for the murder of Vicky Hamilton

on the 2nd of December, 2008,
at the High Court in Dundee.

He was found guilty.

Judge Lord Emslie added
another 30 years to his sentence

and told Tobin
he considered his crimes

the most evil and horrific acts

that any human being
could commit.

Seven months later,
on the 23rd of June, 2009,

Tobin was in court once more,

charged with the murder
of 18-year-old Dinah McNicol,

but it was postponed,

and the jury discharged
on the 7th of July

as the judge,
Mr. Justice Calvert-Smith,

ruled Tobin was not fit to
stand trial due to ill health.

-Peter Tobin has a habit

of feigning illness
all of the time,

and it's quite obvious to me
why he's doing this.

As a psychopath,
he likes playing with people.

He likes pushing their buttons.

He likes to be the puppet master
that's pulling the strings,

and he knows that when he claims
that he has chest pains

or he's having a heart attack,

that prison authorities need
to react to that,

they need to respond,
and I think he quite enjoys

watching people running around
after him and pandering to him.

I think he finds it
quite entertaining.

-On the 14th of December,

Tobin's trial
for Dinah's murder resumed

at Chelmsford Crown Court.

William Clegg QC
was prosecuting.

-Well, all murder cases are
traumatic for obvious reasons,

but this one particularly so

because the family
had absolutely no idea

what had happened to their child
for nearly 20 years,

so there was a great deal
of emotional tension in court.

The family were there
throughout the trial

and behaved with great dignity
and composure throughout it.

-During the trial,
even more revelations came out

about Tobin's callous nature.

-She had been left some money
by her mother,

who had died prematurely,
and there was some £2,000 of it

in her account
at the time of her death.

After her murder,
Tobin had withdrawn that money

from a number of banks
on the south coast,

banks that were situated
comparatively near to addresses

that he had a connection with,

and therefore, there was yet
a further connection.

-Dave Martin took to the stand

to testify against
his former neighbor.

-He was sticking his thumbs up
and saying, "Are you okay, Dave?

I haven't seen you
in a long time,"

which was a little
on the shocking side to me

because I really didn't
want to know him.

It was as if he wasn't taking

any of the proceedings
seriously.

-The defense offered no
arguments against the evidence,

and the trial lasted
a mere three days.

The jury deliberated
for a brief 15 minutes

before returning their decision.

Tobin was guilty yet again.

-Well, to be honest, it
was a very easy case to state.

The evidence against him
was overwhelming.

One had to use just an element
of common sense to appreciate

what would be the chances
of a stranger burying a body

that they had presumably
murdered in a random garden,

selecting one that just happened
to be one that another murderer

had already
buried somebody else.

-On the 16th of December, 2009,
Judge Mr. Justice Calvert-Smith

handed Tobin
another life sentence,

his third in total,

with a recommendation
that life means life.

In July 2010, it was reported

that officers working
on Operation Anagram

have narrowed their review down

to nine unsolved cases
of murder and disappearance.

Despite claiming
to have killed more women,

Tobin has so far refused
to cooperate with the police.

-Peter Tobin has no respect.
A man of no humanity.

He will talk.

He's been interviewed by police
officers involved in Anagram,

but he'll talk about himself

because this is an individual
that loves himself.

He doesn't care
about anyone else,

so he gets a gratification --

whatever gratification he has
had -- killing people.

He's a sad, sad individual

who's taken probably
more lives than we know.

-What sets Tobin apart,
also, for me

is that he's taken some pride
in gloating

in the wake of his imprisonment
that he's killed 48 women

and then saying,
"But you've got to prove it."

No proof of those extra killings
has ever been brought forward,

but a number
of high-ranking officers,

particularly in Scotland,
are absolutely convinced

that Tobin has killed
many more women,

but they don't know which ones,
and they don't know where.

-In June 2011, the failure
to identify more victims

led to Operation Anagram
being wound down.

-I am proud of what I did
as regards Peter Tobin

and forming Operation Anagram
to search for the truth.

I left the police in 2011,
but I'll never forget that.

I'll never forget
the Tobin case,

and in my mind,
I always live in hope

that we will find out
the truth someday.

That's why it's important
that we have programs like this.

People like Tobin
and other killers

should never be forgotten about.

-I think Peter Tobin
definitely killed more people

than he's been convicted
of killing.

Somebody like him
doesn't just stop offending

for any lengthy period of time.

I think there are victims
that we don't know about.

I think he was
incredibly careful

with some of the people
that he targeted.

-Peter Tobin's crimes spread
far and wide across the UK

and left a lasting effect
on the people he met.

-Tobin is an evil man.

He's got no respect,
no compassion.

Peter Tobin, the only thing
he's worried about

is Peter Tobin.

-People say,
"You want him to die?"

I said, "I don't
want him to die.

I want him to live a long time

and every day be filled
with fear, real fear.

That's what I want for him,"

because what he done to people,
it's horrendous.

-I think Peter Tobin is evil,
always was and always will be,

and that's
my honest opinion of it,

and I think he's done more
than people realize.

-The sense that
he knows something

that the rest of us don't

gives succor
to Tobin's vast arrogance,

but to be honest
and to be clear,

there is a level
of depravity in him

which I fear knows very,
very few boundaries.

He's a genuinely terrifying man,

and I hope that he spends
the rest of his life

firmly behind bars.

-Peter Tobin is evil,
is horrible.

34 years in the police,

I have never dealt
with such an evil individual.

-Tobin's insatiable need
to cause pain and suffering

knows no bounds.

He's proved to be toxic
to anyone he's met

or any community he's entered.

He is a dangerous
sexual predator

who callously ended the life
of at least three young women.

We may never know if there are
more victims of Peter Tobin,

but we can be sure that
his lifelong incarceration

means there will
certainly be no more.

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